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domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
Subject: domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
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Country Gentlemen Cover November 25, 1916.jpg
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domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)


Country Gentlemen magazine cover November 25, 1916, depicting a turkey (Thanksgiving reference) and a cat on a fence.
Date 25 November 1916
Source Cover of November 25, 1916, "Country Gentlemen" magazine, via Flickr: November 25, 1916
Author Paul Bransom Published by The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia. Scanned by Don O'Brien
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Country_Gentlemen_Cover_November_25,_1916.jpg

The domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a large poultry bird, domestic form of the wild turkey. The English language name for this species results from an early misidentification of the bird with an unrelated species which was imported to Europe through the country of Turkey.

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